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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

I'd sooner get the axe that Minn & Wisconsin play for or that bucket Purdue plays for. Just ugly.

"Michigan man or woman. To me, it's a great love for the University of Michigan. There's a selflessness there. It's what can you do for the University of Michigan, not what the Universtiy of Michigan can do for you." JH

Think of the first night. Imagine The Shawshank Redemption except with more sodomy. The tribal tattoos. The acrid smell of burning couches. His self loathing over his wooden arousal at being stroked by skanky, beer swilling harlots who managed to cobble together enough sentences on their admission applications to avoid LCC. Would he ever be able to look at a beer commercial again without a flashback? "My God, is that a mullet? What IS a Brah? Are they going to watch 300 again?"

Nobody knows about the Paul Bunyan trophy except whichever players have to haul it off the field after the big game. It has been a sort of a nonexistent joke as long as I can remember.

Meanwhile, the game is not a joke. I do think that if this game is bigger for the Spartans than for the Wolverines, it is at least in part because there are more in-state kids on MSU's roster. This is indeed a very big game if you ask Michigan/Michigan guys like Leach, Wangler, Ron Johnson, Wheatley, the Gradys, Braylon Edwards, Glenn Doughty, H. Huckelby, etc.

Actually, because charred couches smell so bad, and the "Charred Couch" is likely to spend many, many more years in Schembechler Hall than anywhere else, we should probably establish the "PSL Trophy," in honor of Michigan's in-state recruiting classes.

I think it is bigger to them because they really are like a little brother who has been brought up in the older brothers shadow. The little brother fights and claws for attention and tries to play sports with his older brother and his friends but can never quite match-up.

The little brother is jealous and wants to beat his big brother every chance he gets but what is in it for the big brother? If he throws down and beats his little brother up, he was supposed to win so what did he gain. If he loses he looks like a total fool and his little brother will never let him live it down.

The reason MSU takes it more seriously is because they have everything to gain and nothing to lose, while for UM it is exactly the opposite.

is that "The Axe" was and is already a big-deal trophy between Wisconsin and Minnesota. (It's just an axe, and it is a badder axe than Paul Bunyan's axe.)
And I think their Axe pre-dated Paul Bunyan by, like, forever.